Favorite video game final boss

[Blake8]

I wanted to know what are some of the hivers favorite final bosses, and why they like them so much, as for me my favorite would be Ultimecia from FF8

 

[WhiteFang]

Mine has got to be Eredin from The Witcher 3.

 

[pyf]

@Blake8 @WhiteFang: and why?

 

[Alok]

I think mine is pretty obvious.


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Master Desann from Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast, the game with one of the best single-player campaigns ever. His character is the complete opposite of mine, though. I like him because he is challenging the system, and because of his cool looks and voice (no homo). I've always found villains (or anti-heroes, especially) to have more in-depth characters than the good guys, be it in video games, movies, or whatever.

 

[Deleted member 219079]

I haven't played that many video games, not so many memorable bosses. It's very hard to relate to antagonists. With that said I guess it's Teepo from Breath of Fire III, where he initially is on protagonist's side.

 

[Blake8]

@pyf First off look at the battle, secondly to me its she’s like a perfect villain, you ever been around people who are chronically pissed off, like they’re mad at the world and all they do is complain, talk bad about others and try to screw others over? To me it seems like Ultimecia has that same psychology, plus she’s an all powerful sorceress, there are other elements to it, but those are the main ones.

 

[Lord Siler]

I don't have a "favorite boss," but I like the Queen Arcadia boss battle from WOS (book II I believe)

It took like 8 heroes to take her down, now that's an epic battle in WC3

 

[fladdermasken]

Giygas, EarthBound.

LeChuck, The Secret of Monkey Island.

Jorg/Makron, Quake II.

Off the top of my head.

 

[Naze]

Dormin from Shadow of the Colossus

The Queen from Ico

The Trickster from the first Thief game (1998)

Father Karras from Thief II

Melchiah from Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver (not a final boss, but he amazed me so much back then)

The reason behind all of them is the same: background, aesthetics/character design and character development.

 

[Chaosium]

Probably Altima from Final Fantasy Tactics, that was a helluva fight.

 

[Blake8]

@pyf what are yours?

@Siler that was one of the hardest battles in the whole series

 

[Lord Siler]

Yea, like I said it was an epic battle.

It took around 8 heroes to beat her, and from what I remember you need to have really develop your scaladar in order to make the battle less difficult since he has vampiric aura which is one of the key abilities that help you win the battle (the only way to keep your units alive is to make sure Arcadia keeps attacking your tank unit, since her attacks will devastate all your other one, and your tank will live a lot longer if he has vampiric aura on him)

So yea, epic battle

 

[pyf]

@pyf what are yours?

I do not have a favorite video game final boss, though I find the final fight against the Grand Vizier Jaffar from Prince of Persia to be enjoyable.

A boss battle worth mentioning is the one against psychic Psycho Mantis, from Metal Gear Solid. The old timers who played this game on Playstation hardware know why...

 

[Lord Siler]

@pyf

psycho mantis has one awesome boss battle

 

[pyf]

Yeah. Plus, it completely mindfucks the player itself. Outstanding achievement in creativity by Hideo Kojima here.

For the record, this boss battle ranked second place in IGN's Top 100 video game Moments.

 

[Lord Siler]

Yeah, it's definitely a mindful, having to plug your controller into the second port to prevent mantis from reading your mind...now that's something else

 

[Razorfang]

Nyx avatar from person 3 fes, it has 13 different "forms" and like 22,500 hit points

 

[Lord Siler]

Yes, Nyx does have like 13 different "forms" but its only the attacks and weaknesses that change, also one problem I have with that battle is that if your over level 85 or so its not challenging at all...if Im not mistaken the avatar is always at level 75

 

[Razorfang]

i just really like that game

 

[Apostle]

One of my favorites has to be the creator from aquaria, merely for the reason that its a very unique and multiphase battle that have you use all kinda of abilities that you acquired throughout your travels, here is a youtube video

 

[Lord Siler]

Never heard of that game, but it looks interesting.

 

[Apostle]

It's an independent game, not very well know but it's really cool, you get to expose a vast underwater world and encounter some exotic, strange and very peculiar creatures all while searching for the meaning of your own (the character's) existence

 

[Lockheart]

Breath of Fire 3 Endboss: Myria.
B/c I remember how she freaked me out when she transformed from a beautiful angel into a fat half dragon lady.

around min 23/min 27

 

[Zombie]

Hitler from Wolfenstein.